After the notable exception of a walk-off home run in a comeback victory over Oklahoma Friday afternoon, LSU didn’t put together many more timely hits in its first major weekend test of the young baseball season.

The errors and other defensive miscues, on the other hand, kept rolling in.

As a result the Tigers finished the Shriners College Classic 1-2, following up Jordan Thompson’s dramatic, 11th-inning home run with a 6-1 loss to No. 1-ranked Texas on Saturday and a 9-6 loss to Baylor in a Sunday night game that stretched into Monday’s wee hours.

“I expect to win every game, and we didn’t do that,” said first-year head coach LSU Jay Johnson. “But I like the fight our team showed all weekend … We do have to play better defense. I don’t know any other way to say it, and we’ll continue to work on that.”

The Tigers (9-3) host McNeese (8-4) at 6:30 p.m. today in Alex Box Stadium.

The Cowboys might think about bunting every pitch to pressure a leaky Tiger infield that has become more of a liability.

LSU made five errors in a game for the second time this season in the loss to Baylor, which didn’t account for several other mental errors and some questionable judgment and execution.

For instance, Baylor took the lead for good, 7-5, on a 2-run homer in the sixth. It came one batter after the Tigers failed to execute what would have been an inning-ending double play — not technically an error, but was hardly a recipe for winning baseball.

The Bears added two insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth, set up by two more actual errors.

With three errors against Oklahoma and two more against Texas, the Tigers 10 had for the trio of weekend games.

It left LSU with 26 errors in its 12 games thus far.

It puts pressure on a pitching staff, even as Johnson still mixes and matches for a rotation and roles beyond Blake Money in the No. 1 “Friday night” role.

“We had some very good performances on the mound, which we’re going to need,” Johnson said. “Because of the way we’re set up right now, we’re going to have to use a lot of guys.”

The Tigers, who came in hitting .354, hit only .219 for the weekend against a major upgrade in opponents, although they didn’t get many breaks in finding holes and might have used up their ration of “timely” hits in the first game.

The Tigers stranded 12 runners against Texas — six in scoring position — while the six of the 10 runners left on against Baylor were in scoring position.

After the McNeese game tonight, LSU will host Bethune Cookman this weekend, Tulane next Tuesday before opening SEC play at home against Texas A&M.

“I’m glad we’re home for the next couple of weeks,” said Johnson, “mostly for the ability to practice and train, maximize that time and be the type of team that we want to be.

“I think this weekend will help us going forward, and the next time we’re in a game like we were tonight, we’ll do what we need to do to be successful.”